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Smart-cities infrastructure helps San Diego deliver ‘mundane’ services more efficiently—and changes the life of a capital-crime suspect

Smart streetlights equipped with cameras and microphones help the city of San Diego better understand traffic patterns throughout the city, but the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure also has proven useful to law enforcement, preventing a wrongful prosecution a capital offense, according to a city official. Much of the promise of smart-cities and IoT initiatives […]

Motorola Solutions execs cite ‘strong’ LMR demand, company’s diversified portfolio

Demand for mission-critical land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems continues to be “strong,” but Motorola Solutions’ offerings extend well beyond this traditional core to sectors like dispatch, video, analytics and software suites, company CEO Greg Brown said today. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, Brown noted that he expects software and services to account for “about one-third” of […]
Potential $2 trillion infrastructure initiative could be a vehicle to help fund NG911 deployment

Potential $2 trillion infrastructure initiative could be a vehicle to help fund NG911 deployment

Democratic congressional leaders met with President Donald Trump today and expressed optimism about a potential $2 trillion infrastructure bill that would include funding for broadband—the type of massive spending bill that some public-safety officials have said is needed to fund nationwide deployment of next-generation 911 (NG911). After meeting with Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) […]

Ubicquia adding cameras, mics, edge processing in new Wi-Fi cells for smart cities, 5G roadmap for small cells

Ubicquia, a maker of small-cell technologies that plug into streetlights, plans to integrate camera, microphones and Qualcomm edge processing in upcoming Ubicell devices that provide Wi-Fi coverage, as well as 5G support for its Ubimetro small cells, according to CEO Ian Aaron. Modern wireless-broadband standards like 4G/5G LTE and Wi-Fi promise blurry-fast speeds, but they […]

Motorola Solutions provides insight into company’s progress on MCPTT, MCData, MCVideo

Motorola Solutions’ broadband push-to-talk offering—driven by Kodiak technology acquired in 2017—meets most of the 3GPP standard for mission-critical push to talk (MCPTT), but the lack of available proximity services (ProSe) chipsets remains the biggest hurdle to being fully MCPTT-compliant, according to company official. AT&T recently announced the availability its upgraded Enhanced Push to Talk (EPTT) […]

Motorola Solutions: Chris Geater, Chris Rapala demonstrate sensor-driven capabilities on cloud-based CommandCentral Aware platform

  Chris Geater (left), Motorola Solutions’ global customer-experience strategy manager, and Chris Rapala, vice president for command and control in Motorola Solutions’s software enterprise unit, demonstrate how sensors in the field automatically can generate important contextual information about a potential incident for command staff via the company’s cloud-based CommandCentral Aware platform that was announced yesterday. […]
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